Tobacco firms’ use of YouTube probed
The tobacco industry may be using websites such as YouTube to get around a ban on advertising cigarettes, a study says. Researchers in New Zealand studied the video-sharing site and found a number...
Tobacco Growers Profit Dropped, Low Tobacco Prices
Tobacco growers in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), declared that low demand and a dropping sales price for Virginia-variety Al Fakher tobacco are threatening their livelihoods. The farmers, who are expecting big...
WHO FCTC COP-4 – next steps on illicit trade.
November 21, 2010 – COP-4 – The fourth session of the Conference of the Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) has come to an end...
Tobacco makes good
New tobacco that produces flu vaccines could rescue the plant’s reputation. Smoking tobacco is well known to endanger human health, but a cousin of the plant could help protect us from a flu pandemic....
Lifting the smoke screen on big tobacco
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has released its investigative report into the tobacco industry’s global lobbying campaign. The investigation, called Smoke Screen – big tobacco’s global lobbying campaign, traces how...